Rants & Raves

South Carolina government wants to give or lend taxpayer money to people who will make their homes more energy efficient. First, that's not the government's job. Second, government pretending to lend money to people who can't afford to pay it back is what got us into the present mess.

I am a concerned parent of a child with special needs. I have called the Richmond County Board of Education, but no one in special ed will return my calls. I have tried to contact the supervisor, no returned call. Who else can I turn to?

This fuss about credit cards is ridiculous. People feel they deserve to spend what they like and then whine when companies come after them for payments. Do what my daddy taught me: Don't get any credit cards; pay as you go as he and other folks did decades ago. I hope among the new laws there is one to finally stop the flow of money past a certain limit until people pay up.

I applaud the new credit-card rule against issuing to folks 21 and under unless they have a co-signer or proof of a steady job to make payments. That's the way it should be for anyone over 21 as well.

Looks like the mayor doesn't give a darn what the people of Augusta feel about that baseball stadium. He's going to ram it down our throats any way he can.

I agree with the person who said the bus drivers drive too fast in Augusta. I work at Augusta Tech, and they come in here to get their buses and they drive wide open. I've considered reporting this several times, but probably nothing would be done.

I can see interrupting all TV programing for national security, the president, accidents involving planes and trains, shootings, things that affect the everyday person. Tiger Woods is just a man, although one of the greatest golfers ever, He is still just a man who made a lot of mistakes. He only owes an apology to his wife and to his children when they are old enough to understand. He doesn't need to take up air time on TV.

Officials will investigate schools for cheating on CRCT tests - by teachers! When school teachers and administrators can't be trusted, who can we trust?

What irony on Page One of The Chronicle. First, there is the possibility Dr. Bedden is leaving our school system for a job in Texas. One wonders why he is considering leaving us. Then right below that article is part of the likely answer: 16-year-old pregnant student is shot and killed in a gang-related incident, the second such killing in recent weeks. Perhaps Dr. Bedden is more interested in working where parents are fulfilling their responsibilities to raise their children with respect for the law.

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Concerning the bus drivers, I'm not making an excuse saying that it's okay for them to drive so fast, but I am pointing out that the most probable reason they drive so fast is because they are on a STRICT time line to make their stops. If they don't make them on time, they get the major heat from the supervisors because people complain about them being too slow! So, either way, the drivers can't win! My advice is to just take a couple of steps back and hop on fast when the bus pulls up to you! And, as far as Bedden moving to Texas for greener pastures, you don't think that this place in Texas has the SAME problems we have here as far as discipline and sorry parents?? Um, you better think again.

"I am a concerned parent of a child with special needs. I have called the Richmond County Board of Education, but no one in special ed will return my calls. I have tried to contact the supervisor, no returned call. Who else can I turn to?"

Speakin of buses, did ya see the mornin news bout the kid who broke in and drove buses in circles then reparked them...joy ridin in a bus....surely they can afford a junkyard dog at the bus barn....I think it was another city though.

The public affairs television channel C-Span 3 might as well have put such a message at the bottom of its screen yesterday as it broadcast President Obama’s epic six-hour "bipartisan" debate on US medical reform.

Of course, by the usual standards of C-Span programming — which can induce sleep faster than an IV drip of propofol — the summit was the equivalent of a bikini mud wrestling contest. You half expected the picture to shake as the camera operator struggled to compose himself.

For the rest of us, however, it was mainly an opportunity to see how many conciliatory-looking poses Obama could strike while listening to his Republican opponents explain why the entire first year of his administration has been a gigantic waste of time, and why the telephone directory-sized health Bills produced by both the Democrat-controlled House and Senate should be fed into a shredder the size of Connecticut, before they . . . well, no one seems to know exactly what these vast pieces of legislation would do. (timesonline.co.uk)

if i were having problems with my special needs child at school, i would not be ranting about it on the r/r's, i would be at the school or the board of education, or where ever i had to be to get the problem resolved, they would be fixing the problem just to get rid of me.......must not be too serious a problem...

お早うございます (ohayō gozaimasu) to you all and especially Petey, Isn't the stock market just great....Wed 3 perfect shorts and yesterday the cat bounce for me on AMD & RFMD for a .10 on 10,000 each. Don't you just love our president? As for the tennis match yesterday, the score was, Dem - spoke just over 4 hours, Rep - bit over 2 hours and the great president spoke more than all the Republicans put together. "Fair and Balance" is the word for the day for our great, help the people government.

An Army grunt sitting in a foxhole, eating MREs and wearing 50lbs of gear after having marched 12 miles, says: "This sucks."

A Navy seaman sitting on his 5' X 2' bunk, in a closet-sized room smelling of oil and rolling from the waves, which he shares with 6 other men, after not having seen the sky for 30 days says: "this really sucks".

A Marine, doing push-ups in the mud during a downpour, after an 18 mile march with 60 lbs of gear, says: "I love the way this sucks, oorah!"

The Special Forces green beret crawling through a leech-infested swamp, eating nothing but bugs and tree bark for 6 days, sneaking around past armed terrorists, says: "I wish this could suck some more!"

An Air Force pilot sitting in an easy chair in an air conditioned hotel, holding a remote control, says: "no cable? this sucks!"

Lunch for yesterday's waste of time summit was provided by the American Pediatric Society. Democrats dined on filet mignon, twice baked taters, and greens. GOP were served Hot Dogs, large hard candies, and sharp edged chips.

dichotomy - That is one reason I am "Mr Petey" now and the MSgt part comes after my name, right before the "USAF (ret)". Not being allowed to kill terrorists because there might be women in the houses that harbor and feed them also played a big part. "It's okay to drop bombs and launch missiles, just don't hurt anybody"

An F-117 was flying escort with a B-52 and generally making a nuisance of himself by flying rolls around the lumbering old bomber. The message for the B-52 crew was, "Anything you can do, I can do better."

Not to be outdone, the bomber pilot announced that he would rise to the challenge. The B-52 continued its flight, straight and level, however.